The chance of earthquake damage in Frontier is about the same as Michigan average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Frontier is higher than Michigan average and is higher than the national average.

The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.

The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.

The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.

Other Weather Extremes Events

A total of 3,103 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Frontier, MI were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:

Type

Count

Type

Count

Type

Count

Type

Count

Type

Count

Avalanche:

0

Blizzard:

5

Cold:

9

Dense Fog:

5

Drought:

4

Dust Storm:

0

Flood:

150

Hail:

760

Heat:

7

Heavy Snow:

88

High Surf:

0

Hurricane:

0

Ice Storm:

30

Landslide:

0

Strong Wind:

59

Thunderstorm Winds:

1,799

Tropical Storm:

0

Wildfire:

0

Winter Storm:

94

Winter Weather:

14

Other:

79

Volcanos Nearby

No volcano is found in or near Frontier, MI.

Historical Earthquake Events

No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Frontier, MI.

No historical earthquake events found in or near Frontier, MI.

Historical Tornado Events

A total of 72 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Frontier, MI.

Distance (miles)

Date

Magnitude

Start Lat/Log

End Lat/Log

Length

Width

Fatalities

Injuries

Property Damage

Crop Damage

Affected County

3.2

1991-03-27

3

41°43'N / 84°36'W

41°47'N / 84°31'W

5.00 Miles

400 Yards

0

0

25.0M

0

Hillsdale

5.7

1964-08-22

2

41°42'N / 84°36'W

0

0

25K

0

Williams

8.7

1965-04-11

4

41°52'N / 84°50'W

41°57'N / 84°22'W

24.50 Miles

33 Yards

3

47

0K

0

Hillsdale

9.3

1965-04-11

4

41°53'N / 84°50'W

41°57'N / 84°22'W

24.20 Miles

1760 Yards

3

47

25.0M

0

Hillsdale

10.5

1969-07-04

2

41°59'N / 84°42'W

41°52'N / 84°22'W

18.70 Miles

100 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Hillsdale

10.5

1974-04-03

2

41°45'N / 84°25'W

41°50'N / 84°23'W

5.40 Miles

167 Yards

0

2

25K

0

Hillsdale

11.5

1991-03-27

3

41°39'N / 84°50'W

41°42'N / 84°43'W

6.40 Miles

200 Yards

0

18

25.0M

0

Williams

11.5

1976-03-12

2

41°48'N / 84°24'W

41°49'N / 84°22'W

0

0

250K

0

Hillsdale

12.0

1974-04-03

2

41°43'N / 84°25'W

41°47'N / 84°20'W

5.60 Miles

33 Yards

0

5

0K

0

Hillsdale

12.5

1974-04-03

2

41°50'N / 84°23'W

41°51'N / 84°22'W

0

3

25K

0

Lenawee

12.6

1964-08-22

2

41°46'N / 84°26'W

41°53'N / 84°18'W

10.30 Miles

100 Yards

0

1

25K

0

Hillsdale

13.0

1976-03-12

2

41°49'N / 84°22'W

41°50'N / 84°21'W

0

0

250K

0

Lenawee

13.6

1977-07-18

2

41°59'N / 84°36'W

41°58'N / 84°30'W

4.70 Miles

33 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Hillsdale

13.8

1969-08-15

2

41°38'N / 84°47'W

0

0

25K

0

Steuben

14.2

1984-09-25

2

41°56'N / 84°25'W

2.10 Miles

90 Yards

0

2

250K

0

Hillsdale

15.6

1974-04-03

2

41°55'N / 84°39'W

42°05'N / 84°24'W

17.00 Miles

440 Yards

2

31

2.5M

0

Hillsdale

15.8

1974-04-03

2

41°47'N / 84°20'W

41°50'N / 84°16'W

4.30 Miles

33 Yards

0

0

0K

0

Lenawee

16.5

1965-04-11

4

41°48'N / 85°00'W

41°52'N / 84°50'W

9.20 Miles

33 Yards

9

200

0K

0

Branch

17.8

1961-05-06

3

41°33'N / 84°48'W

41°34'N / 84°45'W

1.90 Miles

813 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Williams

18.4

1965-04-11

4

41°45'N / 85°05'W

41°53'N / 84°50'W

15.50 Miles

1333 Yards

9

200

250.0M

0

Branch

19.4

1976-03-12

2

42°03'N / 84°35'W

42°04'N / 84°30'W

3.60 Miles

133 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Hillsdale

21.1

1969-09-06

2

41°42'N / 85°00'W

0

0

25K

0

Steuben

21.2

1976-03-12

2

42°04'N / 84°30'W

42°05'N / 84°28'W

0

0

250K

0

Jackson

21.4

1986-05-15

3

41°56'N / 84°58'W

1.20 Miles

200 Yards

0

0

2.5M

0

Branch

22.1

1991-03-27

3

41°32'N / 85°04'W

41°39'N / 84°50'W

14.60 Miles

200 Yards

1

6

25.0M

0

Steuben

22.4

1975-05-21

2

41°55'N / 85°00'W

0.80 Mile

33 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Branch

22.6

1957-07-04

2

41°28'N / 84°34'W

41°27'N / 84°30'W

2.70 Miles

33 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Williams

23.8

1965-08-25

2

41°30'N / 84°24'W

41°32'N / 84°13'W

9.40 Miles

880 Yards

0

1

2.5M

0

Williams

23.9

1983-06-30

2

41°59'N / 84°59'W

1.00 Mile

40 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Branch

24.7

1974-04-03

3

41°34'N / 85°13'W

41°44'N / 84°53'W

20.50 Miles

333 Yards

2

15

0K

0

Steuben

24.7

1974-04-03

2

42°05'N / 84°24'W

42°07'N / 84°22'W

1.30 Miles

440 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Jackson

25.7

1992-07-12

2

41°32'N / 84°14'W

2.00 Miles

150 Yards

0

8

2.5M

0

Fulton

25.9

1961-05-06

3

41°33'N / 85°12'W

41°33'N / 84°48'W

20.50 Miles

800 Yards

0

0

2.5M

0

Steuben

26.4

1983-05-01

2

42°00'N / 84°11'W

1.90 Miles

400 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Lenawee

27.0

1965-04-11

4

41°44'N / 85°10'W

41°45'N / 85°05'W

3.80 Miles

333 Yards

0

0

0K

0

Steuben

27.1

1964-08-22

3

42°00'N / 84°10'W

0

2

25K

0

Lenawee

27.3

1965-04-11

4

41°57'N / 84°22'W

42°00'N / 83°55'W

23.20 Miles

1760 Yards

5

42

25.0M

0

Lenawee

27.3

1965-04-11

4

41°57'N / 84°22'W

42°00'N / 83°55'W

23.20 Miles

33 Yards

4

41

0K

0

Lenawee

29.6

1955-08-06

2

42°06'N / 84°20'W

42°09'N / 84°11'W

7.90 Miles

300 Yards

0

0

3K

0

Jackson

32.0

1976-03-12

2

41°47'N / 85°15'W

41°48'N / 85°12'W

0

0

25K

0

Branch

32.5

2001-10-24

2

41°28'N / 85°12'W

41°32'N / 85°01'W

7.00 Miles

440 Yards

0

0

1.0M

0

De Kalb

Brief Description: On Wednesday 10/24/01 a surface low pressure system tracked rapidly northeast from the mid Mississippi Valley to northern Lake Michigan and deepened significantly. The accompanying cold front surged east from the Mississippi Valley during the afternoon to southeast Michigan and western Ohio in the evening. The deepening surface low was the result of a negatively tilted upper level trough approaching the Mississippi Valley. The air mass ahead of the cold front was quite unstable with lifted indices around -5C and surface dewpoints of 65-70F. Strong veering wind fields were over the area with 20-30kt S-SSE flow at the surface veering rapidly in the low levels to southwest at 45kts, then remaining unidirectional above with wind speeds increasing to 65kt at 20,000 ft. An area of Thunderstorms across Illinois in the early afternoon formed into a line as they moved into northwest Indiana. Two strong bow echoes developed over northwest and north central Indiana during the late afternoon and moved northeast at 50 MPH into southern Michigan. Numerous tornadoes occurred in the comma heads of the bow echoes. Isolated supercells ahead of the main squall line produced little severe weather except for a tornado that occurred over northwest Ohio in the evening when the squall line merged with a supercell.

32.5

1983-05-01

2

41°59'N / 84°06'W

42°02'N / 84°00'W

5.90 Miles

500 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Lenawee

33.2

1976-03-12

2

42°11'N / 84°15'W

2.00 Miles

90 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Jackson

34.8

1971-08-10

2

41°18'N / 84°48'W

0.50 Mile

100 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Defiance

35.0

1976-03-12

2

41°45'N / 85°19'W

41°47'N / 85°15'W

3.30 Miles

100 Yards

0

0

25K

0

St. Joseph

35.2

1983-05-01

2

41°58'N / 83°58'W

2.00 Miles

100 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Lenawee

36.3

1992-07-14

2

41°27'N / 85°09'W

41°27'N / 85°09'W

4.00 Miles

150 Yards

0

0

25.0M

0

De Kalb

36.5

1960-06-15

2

42°15'N / 84°20'W

42°15'N / 84°13'W

5.60 Miles

33 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Jackson

37.2

1974-04-03

3

41°31'N / 85°17'W

41°34'N / 85°13'W

4.30 Miles

1000 Yards

0

0

0K

0

Lagrange

38.1

1966-07-09

2

41°56'N / 85°19'W

0.50 Mile

10 Yards

0

0

25K

0

St. Joseph

38.9

1970-05-12

2

41°26'N / 84°12'W

41°14'N / 84°06'W

14.40 Miles

50 Yards

0

0

25K

0

Henry

39.0

1992-07-14

2

41°27'N / 85°17'W

41°27'N / 85°09'W

4.00 Miles

150 Yards

0

28

25.0M

0

Noble

39.7

2010-06-05

2

41°29'N / 84°00'W

41°31'N / 83°52'W

7.00 Miles

700 Yards

0

0

500K

0K

Fulton

Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: The tornado touched down along Highway 109 just north of County Road A and moved northeast, impacting several homes, trees and power lines. Several homes were severely damaged or destroyed (DI:FR12 DOD: 8). However, improper anchoring of some of the homes resulted in a failure on all walls, resulting in their destruction. Several trees were uprooted or damaged, including through the Maumee State Forest. The tornado ended near the Fulton/Lucas county line. The maximum width of the tornado was around 700 yards with maximum wind speeds estimated around 130 mph. Damage is estimated at $500,000. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A warm front worked north towards lower Michigan during the evening hours of the 5th. Storms were initially slow to organize, but quickly intensified and became supercellular. One of these storms tracked into Fulton county and quickly spawned a tornado north of Liberty Center. The tornado remained on the ground for roughly 7 miles producing damage along its track before dissipating near the Fulton/Lucas county line.

39.9

1979-06-20

2

41°44'N / 83°50'W

0.60 Mile

27 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Lenawee

39.9

1961-05-06

3

41°32'N / 85°25'W

41°33'N / 85°12'W

11.00 Miles

800 Yards

0

5

2.5M

0

Lagrange

40.9

1986-07-12

2

41°14'N / 84°21'W

41°13'N / 84°19'W

3.30 Miles

73 Yards

0

0

2.5M

0

Defiance

41.7

1976-03-12

2

41°41'N / 85°30'W

41°45'N / 85°19'W

10.10 Miles

127 Yards

0

8

25K

0

Lagrange

41.9

1986-07-15

2

42°24'N / 85°11'W

42°15'N / 84°45'W

22.50 Miles

440 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Calhoun

44.0

2000-06-14

2

41°17'N / 85°09'W

41°17'N / 85°07'W

3.00 Miles

400 Yards

0

0

200K

0

De Kalb

Brief Description: The tornado touched down on CR 64, one half mile west of Indian Springs Camp Ground. Trees and power lines were knocked down and many were snapped and uprooted. Extensive roof damage occurred to houses in the area. A barn was damaged with much of its roof torn off and outbuildings were either damaged or destroyed. The tornado then lifted back into its parent cloud.
Synoptic and mesoscale conditions for June 14th...
A significant mid-level shortwave trough was located over Iowa on the morning of June 14th with an outflow dominated squall line across western Illinois. Rapid destabilization ensued later in the morning across eastern Illinois and northern Indiana with CAPES to 3500 j/kg by early afternoon. VAD wind profiles showed 850 millibar winds in excess of 50 knots in advance of the upper trough by afternoon and as storms developed along the left over outflow boundary across Illinois... they quickly became severe and organized into a large bow echo and moved quickly eastward into northern Indiana causing extensive wind damage. By late afternoon... a short segmented squall line developed just ahead of this bow echo squall line and extended from a St. Joseph to Fulton county line. Along the southern end of this line... an embedded tornadic supercell developed and interacted with a left over storm-scale outflow boundary to produce the Wabash/Kosciusko and DeKalb county tornadoes. The lack of significant low level shear likely prevented a much larger and more widespread tornado event especially across Whitley and Allen counties where several funnel clouds were captured on film but failed to touch down.

44.2

1991-03-27

3

42°23'N / 84°54'W

2.00 Miles

400 Yards

0

18

250K

0

Calhoun

44.8

1982-06-15

3

42°21'N / 84°22'W

42°24'N / 84°08'W

10.00 Miles

500 Yards

1

1

2.5M

0

Jackson

44.9

1965-04-11

4

41°38'N / 85°40'W

41°44'N / 85°16'W

21.60 Miles

177 Yards

5

41

2.5M

0

Lagrange

45.3

1974-04-03

3

41°25'N / 85°28'W

41°31'N / 85°17'W

11.40 Miles

150 Yards

3

38

25.0M

0

Noble

46.2

1955-07-06

2

41°55'N / 85°29'W

0

0

3K

0

St. Joseph

46.5

1956-04-03

2

41°38'N / 85°29'W

0

0

3K

0

Lagrange

47.3

1992-07-12

2

41°31'N / 83°49'W

41°31'N / 83°42'W

5.00 Miles

200 Yards

0

1

2.5M

0

Lucas

47.6

1974-04-03

3

41°03'N / 84°27'W

41°10'N / 84°22'W

8.70 Miles

177 Yards

0

1

250K

0

Paulding

47.7

1953-06-08

3

42°12'N / 84°00'W

42°15'N / 83°47'W

11.30 Miles

70 Yards

1

5

25K

0

Washtenaw

48.0

2002-11-10

3

41°05'N / 84°20'W

41°10'N / 84°16'W

7.20 Miles

440 Yards

2

0

0

0

Putnam

Brief Description: This tornado originated in Van Wert county and moved across Paulding county into Putnam county about 4 miles west southwest of Continental. NWS ground and aerial survey found F3 damage as the tornado entered Putnam county, striking a mobile home and killing a husband and wife. The tornado moved northeast across the northwest corner of Putnam county, quickly weakening to an F0 as it exited the county 4.5 miles north of Continental.
M72MH, F67MH
On Sunday, November 10th, 2002 a cold front trailed from a deep surface low over northern Lake Michigan into central Missouri. Ahead of the cold front the KILN (Wilmington, OH) 1200 UTC sounding showed an unstable airmass with CAPE (Convectively Available Potential Energy) of 1148 J/kg and a Storm Relative Helicity (SRH) of 408 m/s2. Another sounding at 1800 UTC showed CAPE had increased on a modified sounding to 1313 J/kg, with SRH increasing to 587 m/s2. A broken squall line developed from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne Indiana and Defiance Ohio with the cold front. A small low topped supercell developed ahead of the line over Blackford county Indiana and was moving northeast at 50 MPH. This parent supercell produced 3 seperate tornadoes in Indiana (see StormData, Indiana, Northeast for more information) before crossing into Ohio. There the supercell intensified and a tornado touched down in Van Wert County Ohio, reaching F4 in strength as it reached the city of Van Wert. The tornado then moved northeast with a total path length of 53 miles, producing F3 damage in Paulding and Putnam counties, and F0 damage in Defiance and Henry counties.

48.9

1983-05-02

2

41°14'N / 84°01'W

41°17'N / 83°55'W

5.00 Miles

83 Yards

0

0

2.5M

0

Henry

49.6

1991-03-27

2

42°27'N / 84°26'W

42°31'N / 84°21'W

5.00 Miles

60 Yards

0

0

250K

0

Ingham

50.0

1982-06-15

3

42°24'N / 84°08'W

42°25'N / 84°06'W

3.00 Miles

500 Yards

0

0

2.5M

0

Washtenaw

* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.